Toe-binder.



TOE BINDER.

APPLIoATIoN FILED 001.19. 1912.

Patented Apr. 15, 1913.

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i ummEDisTAWB-ENT OFFIGEF" f RONALD F.-1vrernnLY,= ori-BEVERLY;ivrassaormsnrrs,` AssIGNoR 'ro UNITED SHOE.

MACHINERY COMPANY, 01"` QPATERSON, JERSEY, A CORPORATION` .OF NEW l,

JERSEY.

TOE-BINDER;

Specification of Letterslatent.

Original application led JulyiZO, 1912,1Sera1 N o. 710,670. Divided and this application ledctober 19, 1912. Sera1:No.726,747.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, RONALD F.`MoFnnLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beverly, in the county `oi Norfolk and `State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Toe-Binders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characterslon the drawings indicating like parts in the several igures.

Th's invention relates to shoe manufacturing apparatus and particularly to means for Ause in connection withthe toebindingiopen ation by whichi the toeportions of uppers on welt shoes, and sometimes other kinds of shoes, are securedin lasted `position preparatory to permanently sewingthe upper to the innersole. generally used is soft? wire `which is usually anchored `to a tackl on one `side `of the toe and then pulled tightly around the toe land secured under tension by wrapping it around a tack on the `other side of the shoe. In order to anchor the wire `toithe first` tack the `workman either holds the end of the wire with the lingers of one hand while twisting it a number of times around` the tack and then drives thetackdown firmly, or else he forms a loop or eye inthe end of the wire with his lingers,` aided sometimes by the handle of `his lasting; pincers, and then tightens the loop around the tackand hammers the tack down to make it secure. Either of these procedures requires some expenditure of time which `it `is one object of this invention to reduce, and in both cases the wire and the tackare made so fast to the shoe that it is nrather diilicult` `to remove them after the upper hasbeen sewn tothe innersole and it is an object of this invention to reduce this work." The short end of the binding wire, after it has been anchored as aforesaid, frequently projects where it is liable to engage and scratch or man another shoe as the shoe is beinghandled and placed on a rack with other shoes and it is a further object of this invention to eliminate this danger of injury from thisend of the binder. i

Withthese and other iobjects in viewjthe invention comprises a; novel1 lbinder substantially as hereinafter described and hav- The toe bindingmaterial most ing the characteristics pointed `out inI the claims.

The drawing shows a portion of the binder and illustrates how the eye is formed.`

y Patented Apr. 15, 1913.

oi. the binder wire thrust therein, and tow hold the binderend while the strand lis given a turn about the post to form the eye in the end of the binder. The socket 5 forms a prong 3 on the under side of the eye which will engage the shoe upper and the socket is preferably inclined in such a direction that the prong will be inclined downwardly and backwardly toward the strand of the i binder so that `tension on the binder will cause the prong to be drawn slantingly into The socket is so locatedl the shoe upper. that the main strand of the binder crosses over the pronged end in position to press i and bind the prong in holding engagement with the shoe upper. The wire holder 6 may conveniently be used for manipulating `the wire to form the eye by inserting the end of 1 the binder strand into the downwardlyini clined socket 5 to form the prong then bend` ing,r the wire .first downwardly and then upwardly around the post 2 and downwardly` again across the portion of the strand that is"1 adjacentto the prong.

This application 1s a division of application Ser. No. 710,670 filed July20, 1912, in which the eye forming means is shown and claimed Having fully described my` invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure `by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A toe binder having an anchor tack receivingleye in one end and an upper en-` gaging prongbent from said eye downwardly and crossedby one side of the eye, said prong being located in position to be engaged with and held against the shoe upper` by the binder when the latter is in placeon a shoe.

2. A toe lbinder having an anchor tack receiving eye in one end and anupper en-` 'wardly toward the strand of the binder and two subscribing witnesses.

oroseed by one side of the eye whereby it is Y y t heldv down by the eye Mld-'s drawn :Slant- RONALD 5 ngly into the shoe upper by the tensonlon Witnesses: Y v the binder. CHESTER E. ROGERS, In testimony whereof I have signed my' MABEL A; SWE'IT;

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